Food Shortage: Bad Economy
Few of you are old enough to remember the great depression of the 1930s. Food lines in the cities reaching blocks, thousand of men on the rails looking for work, anywhere, doing anything. Many of those men never returned home, leaving wives and children to fen for themselves. Could that happen again, in spite of 800 billion dollars spent on stimulating our economy. It is not working, so you had better have a plan. I hope I give you at part of one.
Today, in spite of all the stimuli that eight hundred billion dollars of relief should bring, I see price increases in all the areas which allow me to live on a fixed income. For those who do not know what a fixed income is, it has a cap, no overtime, no cost of living increases, it stays the same month to month. When prices go down, we breath easy, but when prices go up, as they are now, most of us who live this way check our savings or bank balance regularly. Now I do not know about the rest of you, but to me, our government stinks. This is not the government of our forefathers, of my youth, my middle age and certainly not the government of my desires. I like small controllable governments, not self-serving, wasteful, big brother to all types. I do not like socialism, communism or any of the ‘isms’ a republic should not be. Conclusion: our present style of government stinks, is out of the people’s hands and our economy is going downward that I do not believe it can pull itself out of until most of us are financially devastated
Here we go again
Check this out just recently we had gasoline go to around four dollars. Groceries went up due to the cost of transportation. Then gasoline dropped down to one dollar and thirty cents, more or less. Did you see groceries drop in price. You did not. Now gasoline cost is rising again, two dollars and seventy cents. Watch your grocery bill rise also. No we are not eating more, we just pay more. Follow me with this, for I think this is a real possibility. What happens to your cost of living when gasoline goes to the predicted price of eight dollars, out of the roof, right. At some point, even you current wage earners will feel the pinch, while we fixed income people tighten the old belt a notch-a-month That is not a funny picture. Other things will also get more expensive but none of us can stop that but food, each of us can, I will suggest how in a few more sentences.
Remember the Y2K Scare
Hey! Remember the Y2K scare, time would almost stand still, financial catastrophe, bank failures and world depression A good friend of mine, Jerry W. Rockett, wrote a book from the point of view concerning the Y2K, having been on the federal teams that indirectly caused the fear problem. His book, Troubles on the Horizon, was not a best seller, but tells a nice story of how he, in the name of a character, survived the madness of people when store shelves were void of food items. How the people first raided the town people who they believed had hoarded food. Then the people who had gardens, on into the countryside taking what they could find in items of food, even livestock. The world was going mad due to a simple mistaken idea that we are domed because of a little glitch in programming standards. The author, through his assumed character, predicted this scenario, but we all know it did not happen, not nearly to the extent expected by experts. Or, is it just that time delayed it, cloaked it into a different cape, and now we are even less prepared, for no one is playing for real, Chicken Little. Everyone, well many, are saying they see light at the end of the tunnel. I don’t think so. Just more false hope. Here is what I suggest.
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